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womble -> RE: stupid question (5/15/2006 14:27:39)
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Not a silly question at all. Yes, you're right - liquid designs (also known as fluid designs) resize to fit the browser window. Measurements for page elements are usually in %, so for example if you had a two column design you might set the width for your left column as 40% and your right column as 59% (I usually shave a % of two off one of the columns to allow for border/margin differences between browsers), so whatever the window size, the left column would take up 40% of the width of the screen and the right 59%.
You can also have semi-fluid designs where one or more columns have a fixed width in a multi-column layout - you'd have a fixed width column specified in px or ems or whatever, and fluid part in % which again would fill the specified percentage of the page.
There's a lot of info out there on css layouts. The W3Schools is always a good place to start. There are also a lot of tools out there to help with layouts - this is one I found the other day that does 2/3 column layouts that's quite good - http://www.csscreator.com/version2/pagelayout.php - pick your doctype, header, footer, number of columns and widths and it produces the basic html and css for the design and is then something you can build on.
<edit>Grrr! Beaten by Tail again! [:D]</edit>
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